securitize
verb
se·cu·ri·tize
si-ˈkyu̇r-ə-ˌtīz 
-ˈkyər-
securitized; securitizing
: to consolidate (something, such as mortgage loans) and sell to other investors for resale to the public in the form of securities
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Its choices, laid out by Vince and the team at Dentons, were to declare bankruptcy or to securitize the $908.2 million debt by issuing bonds and paying them off over 28 years, thus saving the utility and easing the blow on customer bills.
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Llewellyn King, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Courtesy of Fannie Mae Started during the Great Depression, Fannie Mae today buys mortgages from lenders, securitizes them, and sells them to investors.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
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—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
Basic functions—from the management of immigration to the construction of government facilities to community policing—have become heavily securitized, as have aspects of everyday life: travel, banking, identification cards.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Llewellyn King, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Courtesy of Fannie Mae Started during the Great Depression, Fannie Mae today buys mortgages from lenders, securitizes them, and sells them to investors.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
Student loan debt Student loans owned and securitized 2017201820192020202120222023 $1.2T$1.4T$1.6T$1.8T
11.
—Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
Basic functions—from the management of immigration to the construction of government facilities to community policing—have become heavily securitized, as have aspects of everyday life: travel, banking, identification cards.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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securitize
transitive verb
se·cur·i·tize
si-ˈkyu̇r-ə-ˌtīz
securitized; securitizing
: to convert (assets) into securities typically by transferring them (as by sale) to a special trust, partnership, or corporation that issues them as securities with a resulting reallocation or reduction of risk and increase in liquidity for the company (as a bank) acting as the sponsor of the transaction see also asset-backed security at security
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